Dhanbad hit-and-run case: Court holds each accused responsible for killing decide, sentencing on August 6

Express News Service

RANCHI: A Special CBI Court of Rajnikant Pathak on Thursday held the 2 accused individuals — Lakhan Verma and his confederate Rahul Verma — responsible beneath sections 302 and 201 and 34 of IPC in Dhanbad hit and run case, by which, Judge Uttam Anand was killed.

Additional session decide Uttam Anand was mowed down by an auto-rickshaw on July 28 final 12 months when he was on morning stroll. Incidentally, the court docket convicted the 2 accused individuals precisely a 12 months after the incident passed off.

“The special CBI Court has convicted the two accused persons guilty for killing additional sessions Judge under sections 302, 201 and 34 of IPC,” stated defence lawyer Kumar Vimlendu. The CBI Court has fastened August 6 as the subsequent date for listening to on the quantum of punishment, he added.

Apparently, the particular CBI court docket accomplished the listening to in file 5 months by operating a speedy trial within the case. Notably, a CCTV footage displaying an auto-rickshaw deliberately hitting the Judge from behind on a abandoned street has raised doubts over his loss of life whereas he was on his morning stroll schedule on July 28, final 12 months. Within hours after the CCTV footage surfaced indicating that the incident was ‘intentional’ moderately than an ‘accident’; the Jharkhand High Court took suo-moto cognizance into the matter calling the incident a direct assault on judiciary.

The Jharkhand authorities subsequently handed over the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had re-registered the case and filed the charge-sheet in October final 12 months.

The incident was seen as an “attack on judicial independence” and the Jharkhand High Court expressing disappointment over the progress report filed within the case, had requested CBI Joint Director to expedite the investigations because the delay in resolving the case has been slackening the morale of Judicial Officers. The particular CBI Court of Rajnikant Pathak carried out speedy trial within the case and accomplished the listening to in merely 5 months, throughout which, stalemates of 58 witnesses produced by the CBI had been recorded. Subsequently, the court docket framed prices in opposition to the 2 accused individuals on February 2 this 12 months, and accomplished the trial after 35 hearings.

The CBI filed the cost sheet in opposition to auto-rickshaw driver Lakhan Verma and his confederate Rahul Verma beneath Indian Penal Code sections associated to homicide (302) and destruction of proof (201) moreover frequent intention (34) on October 20, 2021.

Special Public Prosecutor of CBI Crime Branch Amit Jindal produced the postmortem report, CCTV footage, moreover a number of 3D photographs to show his level that the 2 accused individuals hit the decide deliberately from behind with an intention to grab his cell phone whereas he was taking a morning stroll.

RANCHI: A Special CBI Court of Rajnikant Pathak on Thursday held the 2 accused individuals — Lakhan Verma and his confederate Rahul Verma — responsible beneath sections 302 and 201 and 34 of IPC in Dhanbad hit and run case, by which, Judge Uttam Anand was killed.

Additional session decide Uttam Anand was mowed down by an auto-rickshaw on July 28 final 12 months when he was on morning stroll. Incidentally, the court docket convicted the 2 accused individuals precisely a 12 months after the incident passed off.

“The special CBI Court has convicted the two accused persons guilty for killing additional sessions Judge under sections 302, 201 and 34 of IPC,” stated defence lawyer Kumar Vimlendu. The CBI Court has fastened August 6 as the subsequent date for listening to on the quantum of punishment, he added.

Apparently, the particular CBI court docket accomplished the listening to in file 5 months by operating a speedy trial within the case. Notably, a CCTV footage displaying an auto-rickshaw deliberately hitting the Judge from behind on a abandoned street has raised doubts over his loss of life whereas he was on his morning stroll schedule on July 28, final 12 months. Within hours after the CCTV footage surfaced indicating that the incident was ‘intentional’ moderately than an ‘accident’; the Jharkhand High Court took suo-moto cognizance into the matter calling the incident a direct assault on judiciary.

The Jharkhand authorities subsequently handed over the investigation to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), which had re-registered the case and filed the charge-sheet in October final 12 months.

The incident was seen as an “attack on judicial independence” and the Jharkhand High Court expressing disappointment over the progress report filed within the case, had requested CBI Joint Director to expedite the investigations because the delay in resolving the case has been slackening the morale of Judicial Officers. The particular CBI Court of Rajnikant Pathak carried out speedy trial within the case and accomplished the listening to in merely 5 months, throughout which, stalemates of 58 witnesses produced by the CBI had been recorded. Subsequently, the court docket framed prices in opposition to the 2 accused individuals on February 2 this 12 months, and accomplished the trial after 35 hearings.

The CBI filed the cost sheet in opposition to auto-rickshaw driver Lakhan Verma and his confederate Rahul Verma beneath Indian Penal Code sections associated to homicide (302) and destruction of proof (201) moreover frequent intention (34) on October 20, 2021.

Special Public Prosecutor of CBI Crime Branch Amit Jindal produced the postmortem report, CCTV footage, moreover a number of 3D photographs to show his level that the 2 accused individuals hit the decide deliberately from behind with an intention to grab his cell phone whereas he was taking a morning stroll.